Bolivian President Evo Morales (Bolivian Presidency / Handout via Reuters / Reuters)
In Bolivia, trampling the constitution are so frequent that it is difficult to know exactly what is in the law.
On Saturday, the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, said he intends to run in 2019 for a fourth term.However, the current law allows only one re-election.
The confusion happened because the Constitution was passed in his second term. So Morales considered that his first term was not worth, as the country would have been refounded with the new constitution. As the judiciary is controlled by the executive branch, the judges did not object to this ruse.
Morales now wants another term and speaks in a referendum to authorize the "double re-election." The figure, of course, does not exist in the constitution. It is an invention of it. To make it a reality, parliament, controlled by his party, MAS, approved today in the first instance the standard that proposes a constitutional reform to allow the president again be a candidate in the general elections 2019.
President swears that if the people say is contrary to another his mandate at the polls, he will withdraw from "contented and happy" political activity. He said when leaving the presidency, Morales will live in Chapare. The region is the main producer of coca, the raw material for cocaine, the country. Even taking the top job in the country, following Morales as president of the six federations of coca growers in the region.
